Fully human: personhood, citizenship, and rights

Today, citizenship itself serves to recognize an individual as fully human or worthy of fundamental human rights, yet this robust form of political membership is limited or missing entirely for some vulnerable groups. 'Fully Human' critically considers how inequalities related to citizenship and recognition impact one's ability to claim so-called universal and inalienable rights.

Lindsey N. Kingston critically considers how inequalities related to citizenship and recognition impact one's ability to claim fundamental human rights. As a remedy, she proposes the ideal of "functioning citizenship," which requires an active and mutually-beneficial relationship between the state and the individual and necessitates the opening of political space for those who cannot be neatly categorized. Ultimately, Fully Human contends that we uncover limitations built into our current international system--but also begin to envision a path toward the realization of human rights norms founded on universality and inalienability.

Preface -- Constructing political membership and worthiness -- Introduction -- The changing value and meaning of citizenship -- Newcomers and noncitizens -- Statelessness and elusive political membership -- Forced displacement and broken ties -- Irregular human movement and the creation of liminal spaces -- Marginalized nations and minorities -- Nomadic peoples and alternate conceptions of space -- Indigenous nations and tribal sovereignty -- Second-class citizens in the "land of the free" -- Creating inclusive forms of membership -- Conveying the problem(s) and representing personhood -- Actualizing the ideal of functioning citizenship.